The service is run by fully qualified counsellors and offers counselling to adults, couples and 16-18 year old’s. They work with a wide range of issues such as loss, depression, anxiety & relationship problems.
Chipping Norton Counselling Service work both short term (for an agreed number of sessions) and longer term, allowing the time and space for the work to evolve. In the initial sessions they will work together to find out whether this is the right time for you to do this sort of work and whether they are the right therapists for you.
Cruse Bereavement Care Oxfordshire provides a range of services for people over 18 affected by bereavement, including face to face sessions with a Bereavement Support Volunteer, Bereavement support groups, Friendship groups and a Bereaved by Suicide support group run in conjunction with SOBS (Survivors of bereavement by suicide).
The Banbury Therapy Centre offers universal access to therapy which they promote as a positive and life affirming part of general health and well-being. They provide a wide range of psychological therapies including counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, family therapy, art therapy, addictions services, relationship counselling and victim support.
The British Psychoanalytic Council is the leading professional association for the psychoanalytic profession and a Professional Standards Authority accredited register. It publishes a register of practitioners who are required to follow its ethical code and meet its practice standards.
It promotes excellence in psychoanalytic thinking and psychotherapy; promotes the highest standards of training and research; and works to make psychoanalytic psychotherapy accessible to all.
The British Psychological Society is a registered charity and the representative body for psychology and psychologists in the UK. It is responsible for the promotion of excellence and ethical practice in the science, education, and application of the discipline.
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) are the leading organisation for the education, training, accreditation and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors in the UK. UKCP exist to promote and maintain high standards of practice of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for the benefit of the public throughout the United Kingdom.
BABCP is the lead organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in the UK and Ireland. Their mission is to support the development of CBT, and those who deliver it, to improve the mental health of people across the UK and Ireland.
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is a professional body representing counselling and psychotherapy which also has a directory of practitioners in the UK.
NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies provides free, confidential and easy to access mental health care to people (18+) registered with an Oxfordshire GP. The service offers a range of evidence based talking therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), employment support, as well as access to wellbeing activities for people who are coping with low mood, panic, obsessive compulsive disorder, worry, health anxiety, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder, helping people to get better and stay well. It also works with people experiencing a long-term physical health condition (LTC) (e.g. diabetes) and/or persistent physical symptoms who are experiencing low mood and/or anxiety.
Young people aged 16 or over are now able to access the service through CAMHS Single Point of Access- Contact: oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/camhs or 01865 902 515.
For those who are registered with an Oxfordshire GP and would like to use this service or find out more about what it can offer, visit the website https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/oxon-talking-therapies/ or phone on 01865 901222 to arrange a convenient time for a telephone assessment within a few days. This will help choose the right level of treatment and choice of therapy.
Oxfordshire Mind has Wellbeing Hubs in Abingdon, Banbury, Oxford and Witney, which are part of the Oxfordshire Mind Wellbeing Service, split into three localities. Wellbeing Hubs provide peer support groups, a programme of short courses and workshops designed to promote wellbeing and many creative activities and groups. Some Peer support groups also take place in community settings such as cafés.
The Abingdon Hub is one of our Wellbeing Hubs, located in the Charter Complex in Broad Street, and offers Peer Support Groups and courses.
